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Cake day: March 19th, 2022

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  • You understand there’s over 13,000 cryptocurrencies, right? Your broad statement here is no different from stereotyping someone based on physical appearance. How many whitepapers, aka detailed business plans for coins, have you read? There are always scammers online, in every industry, across the board. But while there are many bullshit coins, there’s still unquestionably very solid options.

    For example, BTC has no website, no office, no owner, and is fully decentralized. Other examples of decentralized coins include ETH, XMR, ZEC, LINK, DAI, GRT, AAVE, INJ, and MKR to name a few. It’s a great practice to research and analyze data before making a statement on topics you’re unfamiliar with, but to each their own.













  • In part, according to one of the head researchers, “compared to prior studies that relied solely on epidemiological data, we integrated multiple layers of information, including epidemiological data, conventional metabolic biomarkers, and cutting-edge metabolomics”.

    So in addition to finding the metadata, they also dug into the biomarkers present, which the molecular pathways are already known in detail. On top of this, metabolomics interpreted the chemical processes involving metabolites, the small molecule substrates, intermediates, and products of cell metabolism. Together, these aspects helped demonstrate the molecular consequences of ingesting animal products. The epidemiological layer assessed the incidence rate of developing T2D and then investigated how many involved the consumption of animal products for the individuals.

    This being the case, it appears to be more than just correlation, as once the metadata was found, the team investigated the causation of the metadata’s findings.


  • This is wild, TLR4 is associated with our immune system’s identification of LPS, which is found in the outer layer of gram-negative bacterial cells. So why it’s associated with the SARS-CoV-2 virus is mind-bending. For anyone interested in the TLR’s found in the immune system, here you go:

    It’s well-known NF-kB is directly associated with NOD-Like-Receptors, which produces inflammation as an inflammasome. This is what allows immune cells to target the area in numbers. But the TLR4 involvement here is puzzling, would have 100% bet against its involvement in the immune response to SARS-CoV-2!

    Edit: For clarity, S100 proteins are only found in vertebrates, and Heparan Sulfate is expressed by mammals on cell surfaces and in the surrounding extracellular matrix. HMGB1 works as a chromatin binding factor in our bodies. HSP60 + HSP70 (known as Heat Shock Proteins) are found in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes and are a response to stressful conditions. They’re basically chaperones and help control protein folding, transport, degradation, cell differentiation, and translocation. But viruses aren’t prokaryotes, so the HSPs they’re using during an infection are from the host. This helps show why I’m soo blown away with TLR4 being involved here!!